Mayer Brown announced today that Evan Kelson joined its Banking & Finance practice as a partner in New York, adding significant depth to its asset finance, receivables financing and securitization capabilities. Mr. Kelson joins from Reed Smith.

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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Kirsten Gaeta has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and member of the Corporate Department. Gaeta advises insurance companies and financial sponsors on a wide range of corporate transactions in the insurance industry, with a particular focus on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions involving the insurance and financial services sectors. She joins Latham from Clifford Chance.

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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announced today that Erez Liebermann has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Data Strategy & Security (DSS) Group, where he will focus on leading complex, high-impact cyber-incident response matters for clients and advising on data-related regulatory requirements. Mr. Liebermann’s arrival provides a considerable increase in bandwidth for what is already one of the legal industry’s leading data practices, and which is seeing strong and growing client demand as a result of increased data breaches and enhanced regulatory scrutiny in the sector. Prior to joining Debevoise, Mr. Liebermann co-chaired the U.S. cybersecurity and privacy practice at Linklaters where he advised major companies on a broad range of data privacy and cybersecurity issues.

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Thomas Gray, a veteran transactional tax and investment tax attorney, has joined Troutman Pepper’s national Tax + Benefits Practice Group in New York as a partner. Gray joins the firm from Faegre Drinker.

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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that John V.H. Pierce has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the International Arbitration Practice, and member of the Litigation & Trial Department. A widely respected industry and firm leader, Pierce will serve as Global Co-Chair of Latham’s International Arbitration Practice.  Pierce joins Latham from WilmerHale.

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Faegre Drinker announced today that Ted Wolff has joined the firm as a partner in the environment and energy practice group in the New York office. He comes to the firm from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP where he was a partner in the environment group.

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced the addition of Tilda Shin, who has joined as a partner in the Firm’s Los Angeles office, where she will be a member of the Corporate & Financial Services Department. A corporate lawyer with a focus on transactions in numerous industries, Tilda is the eighth partner to join Willkie’s Los Angeles office this year. Since opening in September 2021 with three partners, the office has added close to 20 partners across various practice areas, including corporate and M&A transactions, private equity, music and entertainment, asset management, private wealth, litigation, and tax. Tilda was previously senior counsel in the Capital Markets & Corporate Department at Loeb & Loeb LLP. In addition, Tilda is a retired Certified Public Accountant in California.

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